Mary A. Fitzgerald's Lamb's Tongue at Art Evolve 2025 Fair, RDS, Dublin, 4-6 April

The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to showcase Mary A. Fitzgerald's 'Lamb's Tongue' at the ART EVOLVE 2025 Fair, RDS, Dublin, April 4 to April 6, 2025.

This work will feature at our stand no 27, alongside other works by the artist and by the following artists we represent: Annika Berglund, Hugh Cummins, Eoin Mac Lochlainn,  Miriam McConnon, Yanny Petters and Kelly Ratchford. We will also showcase work by three artists from our AGA group: Mary A. Fitzgerald, David Fox and Nickie Hayden.

This painting, an acrylic on board (25x25cm), was part of our 2022 Bloomsday group show 'Outrageous, Obscene and Offensive'.  Maisie Greener, volunteer at the Olivier Gallery Cornet then, selected that work as her favourite and wrote a beautiful essay about it:

“...Usually Mary’s work entails intimations about place and object while incorporating private sensations and experiences. Her iconography is rooted in the quotidian but notes how memory and recollection affect and modify these encounters. The overlapping of paint complements Mary’s philosophy that past experiences compound to affect the present. 

Her chosen palette of red, blue and green hues almost challenge censorship chromatically. By utilising shades that should not work together, washing stains of pink over green, for example, Mary subverts colouring precedent: resisting aesthetic censorship. The colours should be jarring and irksome however Mary navigates this mismatch through the amorphous, irregular shapes with softened and rounded edges…”

The essay can be read in full here.

We were delighted to see a detail of this wonderful painting featuring on the printed invitations to the fair. Thanking the organisers for their good taste!

Art Evolve, a brand-new contemporary art fair showcasing the very best of Ireland’s contemporary art scene.